Speed up Kubuntu

[askrieger]

Re: Speed up Kubuntu

That means you don't have a /etc/inttab file. Much of the information in this post refers to earlier versions of Kubuntu.

[darkwings]

Re: Speed up Kubuntu

oooh ok then...i won't worry about it so much...i did switch my kernel to the K7 one, and things did pickup a bit....im using an aged and beaten Asus board with a 900 Athlon, 3 sticks of 256 mb sdram, a couple of hd's, and a decent video card

i've seen that athcool thing, the warnings kinda scare me off of that...

im going to go look for switching my kernel back to the "generic" one....just in case

thx

[aysiu]

Re: Speed up Kubuntu

I would advise www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/kde-core+sitesychocats.net+ubuntu&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=34&lr= lang_en]switching to kde-core instead of kubuntu-desktop[/url] or, barring that, installing kpersonalizer, running it, and using fewer effects (enabling only desktop wallpaper and image previews).

[claydoh]

Re: Speed up Kubuntu

Edgy uses a different init system, so it does not have the file /etc/inittab. Turning off the extra consoles can still be done, I think, but I need to dig up the where and how...



...and the where is:
/etc/event.d

The how is:
If you delete (or move for easy replacement ) some of the ttyX files, this will disable the extra consoles

[darkwings]

Re: Speed up Kubuntu

ok so i've got kde core in....seems very quick...now....tell me please how to get Ktorrent running again

i got k3b and digikam back and working....

so now can i pretty please have my bit torrent downloader that i know and love so well ??

thanks for you help

[aysiu]

Re: Speed up Kubuntu

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install ktorrent

[darkwings]

Re: Speed up Kubuntu

no luck, no love.......it just flashes really fast in the taskbar, then nothing.

I'm stumped. Is there some other file thats needed that isn't in the Core?
ah bummer

[aysiu]

Re: Speed up Kubuntu

Did it install okay? The "flash[ing] really fast in the taskbar" is trying to launch KTorrent, not install it?

If that's the case, can you launch it from the command-line and post the output here? Just type

ktorrent

in the terminal, see what spits out, and copy and paste that text into a post here.

[darkwings]

Re: Speed up Kubuntu

it said " ktorrent is already running!"
so I did a killall ktorrent and tried to restart it in konsole

darkwings@darkwings-desktop:~$ ktorrent
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what(): St9bad_alloc
ERROR: Communication problem with ktorrent, it probably crashed.
darkwings@darkwings-desktop:~$ KCrash: Application 'ktorrent' crashing...

this was the output of that....

[aysiu]

Re: Speed up Kubuntu

Hm. Googling those errors didn't help much. The bad_alloc brought up results about memory allocation but didn't explain how to fix that.

Is it possible a reboot might help?

[darkwings]

Re: Speed up Kubuntu

nope made no difference whatsoever...and to make matters worse i thot i'd try overclocking my cpu in my cmos settings

i ended up having to clear it by jumping the little terminals on the MB so my machine would boot

I should have known better but honestly, I think I'm partially retarded. My Linux buddy has re-flashed it for me like 5 times, because I can't seem to leave well enough alone. I'm scared to do it myself. The website for my board isn't much help as we don't have DOS on our machines. And all site gives is a how-to for windoze users. sigh

this is why car guys should not own a computer. the need to keep messing with stuff is overwhelming.

But even with the loss of my upgraded BIOS everything seems ok. Guess I'll be paying my buddy a visit again. Good thing his wife likes beer.

[slackrat]

Re: Speed up Kubuntu

Great tip on powertweak....i apt-got it and installed it. Then thought i would have to configure something........but noticed an improvement before even going to the console.........or am i just imagining that cause i installed something called powertweak?

[exo.Survive]

Re: Speed up Kubuntu

This is a nice tip for saving ram:

sudo vi /etc/inittab

you'll find these lines:

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

modify commenting like this:

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
#3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
#4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
#5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
#6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

save and reboot.

These are all the virtual console (ALT+FX), this modification stated that leave only two virtual console instead of 7 and save much ram

I couldnt find /etc/inittab. Should i create it?

[kubicle]

Re: Speed up Kubuntu

This is a nice tip for saving ram:

sudo vi /etc/inittab

you'll find these lines:

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

modify commenting like this:

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
#3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
#4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
#5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
#6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

save and reboot.

These are all the virtual console (ALT+FX), this modification stated that leave only two virtual console instead of 7 and save much ram

I couldnt find /etc/inittab. Should i create it?

On newer releases (that use upstart) you should edit /etc/event.d/tty[1-6] files to disable ttys of your choice on runlevels of your choice.

Example (this will disable the the third VT, tty3, on all runlevels)

# tty3 - getty
#
# This service maintains a getty on tty3 from the point the system is
# started until it is shut down again.

stop on runlevel 0
stop on runlevel 1
stop on runlevel 2
stop on runlevel 3
stop on runlevel 4
stop on runlevel 5
stop on runlevel 6

respawn /sbin/getty 38400 tty3

Note: You should leave at least one tty active on runlevels 2-5